Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
TOM WAITSI was always laughing in church.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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I was always laughing in church.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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